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After 450 years since they were made, the Flanders tapestries in Badajoz cathedral revive their brilliance by becoming the unifying thread of the international meeting of ‘De Flandes a Extremadura. Humanismo y Naturaleza en los tapices de Badajoz’ (From Flanders to Extremadura. Humanism and Nature in Badajoz tapestries), which is held today and tomorrow in the Badajoz Official School of Pharmaceuticals with the presence of distinguished experts from Italy, Belgium and Spain.

More than seventy foundations from Spain and Portugal come together in Mérida to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals, communal challenges, the contributions that each can make and the partnerships that may be established.

This meeting will include the participation of the High Commissioner for the 2030 Agenda from the Spanish government, Cristina Gallach.

The work ‘Filosofía de la historia de América: los cronistas de Indias en el pensamiento español’ (Philosophy of the history of America; the chroniclers of the Indies in Spanish thinking), by the Russian Natalia Korotkikh Denisova, has been the winner of the Fourth Research Prize for the Ibero-American Doctoral Theses ‘Fernando Serrano Mangas’, organised by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste with the aim of promoting and supporting scientific creations related to the Ibero-American sphere. This thesis elaborates a canon, catalogue or dictionary of the chroniclers of the Indies.

COMUNICACIÓN The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste and the Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services of Badajoz have signed a framework collaboration agreement that enables carrying out projects, programmes and activities. The agreement, signed by...

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has opened an exhibition of ‘Extremeños en Iberoamérica y Europa – Historieta’ (Extremadurans in Ibero-America and Europe – Comic) in the Sala Mirador hall of the Parador hotel of Jarandilla de la Vera. The exhibition is a showcase for the books published for its collection under the same name that seeks to acquaint our modern world with the great historical figures of Extremadura.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the Carolina Foundation have signed a framework agreement for collaboration to establish mechanisms that will allow the development of academic and cultural activities for studies related to Ibero-America.

The European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation has published the call for nominations of the 13th Edition of the Carlos V European Award for which people, organisations, projects or initiatives can compete, and who have contributed to the knowledge of the values of Europe, and the process of construction and integration of the Old Continent.

The Board of Trustees for the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation held a meeting last Wednesday in Mérida chaired by the President of the Government of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, and approved the action plan for 2019. This is a diverse programme that brings together around 100 activities that will contribute to keep going more deeply into the study and analysis of the European reality, in addition to driving and consolidating the links between Extremadura, Europe and Ibero-America.